Philosophy and Life Writing

ISBN-13: 9780367078065 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 168 str.

D. L. LeMahieu; Christopher Cowley

Opis

In this volume, scholars from a number of academic disciplines illuminate how a range of philosophers and other thoughtful individuals addressed the complex issues surrounding philosophy and life writing. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

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Introduction – Philosophy and Life Writing  1. Self-management and Narrativity in Teresa of Avila’s Work  2. ‘S’éclairer en dedans’: Rousseau and the Autobiographical Construction of Truth  3. The Incubus of Necessity in Mill’s Autobiography  4. Wilhelm Dilthey’s Views on Autobiography  5. Walter Benjamin’s Berliner Kindheit um 1900: Longing, Enchantment and the Material Subject  6. ‘Forgive Me Reader, for I Have Sinned’: Disponibilité and Confession in the Works of Albert Camus  7. Life Writing and Philosophy: Bryan Magee and the Subjectivities of the Examined Life  8. Heterobiography: A Bakhtinian Perspective on Autobiographical Writing  9. Narrative and the Phenomenology of Personal Identity in Merleau-Ponty  10. Narrating Trauma: Judith Butler on Narrative Coherence and the Politics of Self-Narration  Book Review: The Philosophy of Autobiography, edited by Christopher Cowley